When it comes to strabismus surgery, the first thing that comes to mind for many people is that they will be operating on their eyes, and that they should not make any mistakes, so they are very nervous. In fact, don’t worry, strabismus surgery is not as dangerous and complicated as you think, and the pre-operative examination is relatively simple. As with other surgeries, a full body checkup, such as blood tests and x-rays, is required before strabismus surgery to understand the child’s physical condition, and the results are usually available within two to three days. Eye examinations include determination of eye position and strabismus angle, binocular visual function and refractive examination to determine the surgical plan, and the results are usually available on the same day, and it usually takes only three days from the start of the examination to the surgery. In addition to completing the preoperative examination, parents and children must pay attention to relaxation and ensure that the child’s body is in a relatively good condition, not to catch a cold or fever, otherwise the surgery will probably need to be rescheduled. After the preoperative examination, the surgery can be performed. Overall, strabismus surgery is relatively delicate and the incisions are small. Because the child needs to be completely immobile during the surgery, but because the child is small and cannot actively cooperate, general anesthesia is required. The surgery time varies depending on the angle of the strabismus, and so does the anesthesia time. The smaller the strabismus, the fewer the number of muscles that need to be adjusted, and the shorter the surgery time. Generally, the entire surgery takes about one hour. Parents do not have to worry about the intellectual damage or other hazards caused by general anesthesia, because the anesthesia time of one hour is very short, and the anesthesia nowadays is generally short-acting anesthetics, which will be excreted quickly and have no effect on the child’s intellectual and physical development. The strabismus surgery is a minimally invasive surgery, and the incision is usually only a few millimeters, and the incision is usually hidden in the area covered by the eyelid, so as long as the child is not a keloid, there will be no obvious scars after the surgery. On the day of surgery, your child’s eye is covered with gauze, and the gauze is removed the next morning when the medication is changed. When the gauze is first removed, the wound area of the eye will be very red and some stitches can be seen on the wound, which will not be visible after the wound heals. Nowadays, all surgical sutures are absorbable, so there is no need to remove the sutures again after surgery. Some children may have stitch reactions and the sutures may not absorb on their own, but parents should not worry too much about this situation, as the sutures will fall off on their own as the wound heals, and there is no need to remove the sutures again.